Category: NATOSource

Ukraine ‘to increase its contribution in NATO-led peacekeeping missions and operations’

By the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine

From the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine:  Chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Colonel General Volodymyr Zamana held official talks with Chairman of the NATO Military Committee General Knud Bartels.

New German general takes command of NATO in Kosovo

By DPA

From DPA:  German General Volker Halbauer on Friday assumed command over the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR), a job he takes on as tensions between Serbia and its former province continue to simmer.

Putin calls missile deal more likely if Obama wins

By David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times

Turkmen navy holds war games in gas-rich Caspian

By Marat Gurt, Reuters

From Marat Gurt, Reuters:  Neutral Turkmenistan flexed its military muscle on Wednesday, holding its first naval exercises in the Caspian Sea to show it can rebuff any attack on the oil and gas riches it hopes to sell to Europe.

NATO SecGen: ‘achieving security in the 21st century must be a truly cooperative endeavour’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  All Allies share the same fundamental values of liberty, democracy, the rule of law, and respect for human rights. 

NATO Chief ‘deeply concerned by the Azerbaijani decision to pardon’ Safarov

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

From Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO:  I am deeply concerned by the Azerbaijani decision to pardon the Azerbaijani army officer Safarov.

Coming soon on demand: Cyber weapons

By John Reed, Killer Apps

From John Reed, Killer Apps:  Last month, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) gave six firms contracts valued at up to $300 million under a program called Agile Cyber Technologies (ACT), which will essentially keep these companies on retainer to provide cyber weapons on-demand under a form of contracting known as Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ).

Report: US unable to get Iraq to stop deliveries of Iranian weapons to Syria

By Bradley Klapper and Lara Jakes, the AP

From Bradley Klapper and Lara Jakes, the AP:  Iraq’s acquiescence in possibly allowing Iranian weapons deliveries to the Syrian regime demonstrates Washington’s limited influence in postwar Iraq, its inability to halt Syria’s 18-month conflict and its continued struggle against Tehran for supremacy in the region.

Missile defense unit in Germany gets state-of-the-art tactical operations center

By Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes

From Jennifer H. Svan, Stars and Stripes:  Called a tactical operations center, the maze of tents set up on Rhine Ordnance Barracks holds state-of-the-art technology, such as computers that can pull up imagery of any place in the world with clarity and share that data almost instantaneously.

Clinton tells China ‘it is vital’ to curb increasing number of cyber attacks

By the Department of State

From the Department of State:  Excerpts from remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.